Lizard Brain

After a week off, we are back this week.

We lost some time getting character backgrounds.  Some interesting stuff for me to use there.

Then, we rejoined our merry adventurers in the Broken Crown Inn.  After the pie (Some of the best.  The skunk lard made it oh-so-flakey!).  our band had rested the night.

In the morning the fighter persuaded them to travel east hunting bandits.  The traveled east on the caravan road.  The first day was wet, and uneventful.  The night passed with no events.  But once they had been traveling for the morning, they found footprints.  Humanoid footprints.  They followed them, and came upon three lizard folk.  There was a moment of mutual "Hey! Get 'em!" and combat was joined.  The thief was wounded bloodily, but survived.  The lizard folk did not.

And that's where we ended up.

Before you can have pie...

Still not done with the characters for the Kid's DnD game, but we ventured fourth anyways. 

Nestled along the jungle-draped Green Serpent River, is the town of Copperford.  The Green Serpent River runs into the Derfang Forest, but few wish to venture into that fey-infested area.

The Green Serpent Valley is the domain of William the Thin.  He makes his home in the keep in the town of Copperford.

Alya the elven Druid, Skular the dwarven Barbarian, Alex the human Fighter, Mako the tiefling Sorcerer, and Kayla the halfling Rogue are our party.

They were in the Broken Crown Inn, the home of the best pies in the area.  The proprietor, one Kieth Silverhorn the half-elven, was lamenting his lack of good lard for making pies.  He told our heroes that they needed to go find him some "Dire Skunks" to make into lard for the pies.

Our heroes ventured out past the palisade walls of Copperford in search of dire skunks.  After much nature crafting, they found a batch of four skunks.  The skunks were turned into pre-lard rather quickly.  Alex and Skular found a fifth skunk, and made short work of it as well.

They returned to The Broken Crown to collect their bounty of 10 silver per skunk, and a share of the best pie in town.

We'll do more later, but that was about all the attention the kids had tonight.

Collaborative worlbuilding with kids.

I have been asked to run a 5E Dungeons and Dragons game for the kids.  This opportunity has given me a chance to try out something I saw on the internet.

Here's the post by The Chatty DM - The Index Card Method Codex, Part 1

So, before I start working up anything for this game, I wanted to make sure I had buy in from the kids.  Ages range from 10 to 17, both boys and girls.  I think it will work better if I make THEM build the world, rather than me building some idea I think is neat, and then having to force them to like it.

We sat down last night, and followed The Chatty DM's idea.  Each player in turn was asked to give me one thing about the world.  I did three trips around the circle.  Here are our results.  I am using "Player N" because, Kids, Internet. Bleh.

Player 1:
The Ascension of Sivdur the Black Star. 
The Inquisitors of the Holy Iron.
The Khaordan Wastes

Player 2:
Audricul, Temple to Animals
Talking Animals of Derfang Forest
Mystical Misty the Magic Item Merchant

Player 3:
Rena the Mercenary
The Prometheus Company of Mercenaries
The Kingdom of Caterina

Player 4:
Assassin Sandcats of the Derfang Forest
Undead Squid
The War of Calamari

Player 5:
The Abandoned Derfang Keep
The Derfang Shift
Shakul, Old King of Derfang

Player 6:
The Goliath Stronghold
The Hundred-Year Flood
The Resurgence of Andromeda

And that's my card deck for the Setting Stack.  Next task is to make some characters, and have the players give me more content.  Among my challenges is the age range.  The oldest wants a grim dark world of grimth and dark.  The youngest would be more at home in a world of anthropomorphic animals that are written for a Saturday morning timeslot on TV.

This won't be boring.